Lead Robotics Engineer
Caterpillar3 days ago
Irving, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Participate in robotics software test review, analysis, witnessing, and certification.
- Design, build, and ship autonomy components across perception, planning, control, and learning.
- Take robotics work from prototype through production on real hardware.
- Contribute across the full autonomy stack while providing depth in a specialty.
- Own components end-to-end and collaborate in small, outcome-owning delivery pods.
- Deploy and evaluate software through simulation, on-vehicle testing, and real-world field operations.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of related engineering experience.
- Robotics generalist experience across the autonomy stack, with expertise in AI, motion planning, perception, controls, or SLAM.
- Production-quality C++ and Python programming skills.
- Experience with ROS or similar systems in real robotics applications.
- Full-lifecycle experience taking robotics products from idea to production.
- Experience with field robotics or autonomous vehicles, on-road or off-road.
- Experience with learning-based control or perception, foundation or VLA-style models, simulation, and on-vehicle deployment.
- MLOps or training-infrastructure experience for ML-focused candidates.
Benefits
- Full-time onsite work at the Irving, Texas office, five days per week.
- Domestic relocation assistance is available.
- Medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), HSA, FSA, wellness programs, employee assistance, voluntary benefits, career development, disability and life insurance, parental and adoption benefits, tuition reimbursement, and potential incentive bonus, subject to eligibility.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.